Ancestry/Genealogy

Best thing about it is that it doesn't lose sight of the larger issues -- e.g., in last Sunday's episode, which touched on both racial and religious identity, and the experiences of discrimination and persecution, or in the Kevin Bacon-Kyra Sedgwick program, in which slavery and abolitionism was yet again a theme.

That said, I wish I had someone to help me through all the branches of my family tree! But I'd have to run for political office or write a best-selling book first.